Nepal's main political parties on Tuesday agreed to integrate up to 6,500 former Maoist rebels into the national army, ending years of negotiations.
Nepal's parliament on Sunday elected a leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister with a simple majority.
Nepalese Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal submitted his resignation Sunday to President Ram Baran Yadav following pressure from his own party and the opposition.
With the detonation of the last landmine, Nepal on Tuesday became free of minefields, the United Nations said.
After more than seven months of political gridlock, Nepal's parliament Thursday elected a 60-year-old leftist leader as the country's new prime minister.
Nepal's former crown prince was arrested Tuesday on charges of firing a pistol in a public place and threatening others, authorities said.
Nepalese authorities in Kathmandu seize ballot boxes, disrupting elections for Tibetans voting to elect a prime minister.
Nepalese authorities in Kathmandu seized ballot boxes Sunday, disrupting elections for Tibetans who were voting to elect a new prime minister and government in exile, officials said Monday.
Facing political pressure, Madhav Kumar Nepal announced Wednesday that he is resigning as Nepal's prime minister.
Nepal averted a political and constitutional crisis Saturday morning with the tenure of the constituent assembly and parliament extended an hour after it expired.
Maoists in Nepal have threatened an indefinite general strike starting Sunday in a bid to force the country's prime minister to resign.
Thousands of Maoist supporters swarmed into Nepal's capital Saturday for a May Day rally that was also intended to press the government to step down.
More than 200 former fighters and other members of the Maoist People's Liberation Army -- including minors -- were discharged from a Maoist camp Thursday in line with Nepal's ongoing peace process, officials said.
An unopposed former Communist leader was elected Nepal's new prime minister Saturday, ending nearly three weeks of political uncertainty.
Nepal's prime minister said Monday he will resign to save what he called the country's "infant democracy."
Nepal's Maoist government took the president to task Monday for ordering the country's army chief of staff to stay in office after they had fired him, calling the decision "unconstitutional."
Nepal's government ordered the country's army chief of staff fired Sunday, touching off street protests and a split in Nepal's Maoist-dominated ruling coalition.
Authorities in Nepal said Saturday they have beefed up security near the Chinese Embassy to stop any possible anti-Chinese demonstrations in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet.
The body of a journalist who was hacked to death in southeastern Nepal was cremated Tuesday as businesses and public transportation in the town of Janakpur remained shut for a second day to protest the killing.
A Nepalese journalist who reported on women's rights and wrote several articles criticizing the dowry system was hacked to death in her room, a media rights group said Monday.
The Nepalese government has begun checking the legal status of protesting Tibetan exiles -- an apparent change in policy, authorities said Thursday.
Extreme flooding has displaced millions of people on either side of the India-Nepal border after a river burst its banks, authorities said Thursday.
A man who led a decade-long bloody insurgency was sworn in Monday as Nepal's new prime minister.
An explosion detonated Sunday evening at the home of Nepal's first-ever vice president, who ignited a wave of protests last month after taking the oath of office in the Hindi language.
The leader of Nepal's former communist rebels was named as the country's new prime minister Friday.
The Nepalese government sent two teams to northern India on Friday to prepare to bring back the bodies of 36 pilgrims killed when their bus plunged into a river, officials said.
Nepal's first-ever President Ram Baran Yadav took the oath of office Wednesday, two days after his election.
Almost two months after Nepal was declared a republic, lawmakers Monday voted Ram Baran Yadav, a physician, as its first ever president.
Candidates from the country's three main political parties have filed to run for the post of Nepal's first president, who will be chosen by Nepalese lawmakers on Saturday, the constituent assembly secretariat announced Thursday.
Lawmakers in Nepal will vote Saturday to pick the country's first president since it became a republic.
People in Nepal march in celebration as their country becomes a republic Wednesday.
Nepal's octogenarian Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigned Thursday, ending two months of political deadlock following elections for a constituent assembly in April.
Nepal's new government has converted its deposed king's opulent palace into a museum and unfurled the national flag on Sunday as a symbolic move to signify the end of monarchy.
Nepal's deposed king gave up his crown of peacock feathers, yak hair and jewels on Wednesday and left his palace forever
Nepal's newly elected leadership changed the country from a monarchy to a republic just before midnight Wednesday, a historic move that ended about 240 years of autocratic rule in the country.
Nepal's king will have 15 days to leave the palace after his centuries-old throne is abolished, officials said Wednesday, hours before they were expected to declare the country a republic
Nepali citizens vote early Thursday in historic but violence-marred election.
The former communist rebels known as Maoists emerged Sunday as early leaders in Nepal's historic elections for an assembly that could formally abolish a 240-year monarchy.
There are calls of fraud in Nepal's election of a constitutional assembly. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Nepal's elections on Thursday were hailed as a success by international observers, including a former U.S. president, despite violence that left two people dead -- including a candidate gunned down in front of a polling station.
Polls opened in Nepal Thursday in an election marred by an outburst of bloodshed that has left eight people dead and stoked fears of more violence on voting day.
Two Communist Party workers and a candidate for a small leftist political party were killed less than a month before a historic vote in Nepal, police said Wednesday.
Nepal took the first step on the path to becoming a republic Friday after parliament voted to amend the constitution ending the 240-year-old monarchy, the speaker of parliament said.
Nepal's Maoists pulled out of the country's coalition government Tuesday after their demands to abolish the monarchy and declare the nation a republic went unheeded.
Former Maoist rebels will join an interim government under an agreement reached with Nepal's governing coalition after weeks of negotiations, according to a source close to the government.
Nepal's government and Maoist rebels have signed a peace accord, ending 10 years of fighting and beginning what is hoped to be an era of peaceful politics in the Himalayan kingdom.
The Nepalese government and Maoist rebels reached an agreement shortly after midnight Wednesday that would allow the rebels to join an interim parliament and government by the end of November, a key government negotiator said.
Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has been rushed to hospital after complaining of chest pains, his nephew said.
Nepal's parliament on Saturday took action to further strip King Gyanendra of power, with lawmakers unanimously endorsing a regulation saying the king has no say in passing bills, according to a parliament spokesman.
Nepal's King Gyanendra has been stripped of much of his power and privileges by the parliament that he recently reinstated, leaving the king a ceremonial monarch.
Nepal's new government has recalled 12 ambassadors who were appointed by King Gyanendra and revoked all royal appointments to government corporations and state-owned institutions, the Home Minister announced Sunday.
Nepalese politicians have returned to Parliament for the first time in four years following weeks of bloody protests and political turmoil that eventually forced the king to hand power back to elected officials.
"After the tedium of strikes and curfew-fever, come and relax by our infinity pool, feast on fresh organic food and enjoy fantastic walks in the peaceful rural hills."
Nepal's seven-party opposition alliance called off a massive protest planned for Tuesday, replacing it with a "victory rally" following the king's decision to restore democracy in the Himalayan kingdom.
Celebrations have replaced protests in the streets of Nepal in the hours after King Gyanendra announced he was reinstating the parliament he dissolved in 2002, giving in to demands of an alliance of seven political parties that launched protests three weeks ago.
King Gyanendra of Nepal told his nation Friday that he would return political power to the people, an apparent concession in the face of massive protests that have paralyzed the tiny Himalayan kingdom.
A small group of pro-democracy protesters have returned to the streets of Nepal's capital, one day after police killed three when they opened fire on a crowd.
Nepal's King Gyanendra came to throne in troubled circumstances -- the June 1, 2001 massacre of Nepal's royal family in which his brother, then-King Birendra, was slain by Birendra's son Dipendra in a drunken rage.
Activists are vowing to go ahead with plans for massive street protests in Kathmandu Thursday, despite an 18-hour government curfew that came into effect at 2 a.m. (8:15 p.m. Wednesday GMT) and a threat to shoot violators.
Under pressure to step down from power, Nepal's King Gyanendra early Friday vowed for "no delay in dialogue" with the country's political parties.
Nepal security police have opened fire on protesters in the Nepalese capital -- injuring dozens -- on the sixth day of demonstrations calling on the country's king to step down from power.
Police have arrested at least 75 party officials in the second day of protests called by political parties opposed to King Gyanendra's rule, government officials said.
Thirty-seven Maoist rebels have been killed as security forces repelled a series of major attacks in Nepal's southern district, a Royal Nepal Army official said Tuesday.
Nepal's King Gyanendra has lifted a state of emergency that he imposed on February 1 after seizing control of the government
A day after his release from a 59-day house arrest, former Nepalese prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Saturday dismissed speculations that his Nepali Congress party would join the Maoist rebels in opposing monarchy.
More than a hundred political party workers were arrested in Nepal on Monday for staging anti-king protests, said Nepali Congress, one of the five parties opposing King Gyanendra's takeover of absolute power on February 1.
Former Nepal prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was freed Friday, 40 days after King Gyanendra assumed power, dismissing Deuba's government and placing a number of political party leaders in house arrest.
Nepal remains gripped by political tension, with rebels helping to break more than a hundred prisoners out of jail, and police quashing a protest in the capital Kathmandu.
Leaders from around the world have condemned the decision by Nepal's King Gyanendra to dismiss the government and declare a state of emergency.
King Gyanendra says he has dissolved the government of Nepal and has declared a state of emergency as he takes control of the Himalayan kingdom.
Security forces in Nepal shot to death seven Maoist rebels Friday in the central district of Dhading, some 20 miles west of the capital, government sources said.
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